Crop Report
Darby and I visited one of our ISA on-farm trial sulfur plots in Vermilion County this week. Soybeans are ready to be harvested, but we are hoping for rain Saturday as conditions are extremely dry. We tried digging soybean plants in different treatments of the trial and, unfortunately, bent the shovel. There are many reports of soybeans still holding leaves and green stems but with very low grain moistures. Corn has been harvested in the area, and yields are above average but less than the record yields reported last year. Corn tip-back was seen on some ears, and disease was visible in the upper corn canopy.
Extremely dry
None, but hoping for some in the next few days.
Extremely dry and hard.
Corn harvest
R7 to R8
Black layer or close to Black layer
Bean leaf beetles
Waterhemp was easily seen above the soybean canopy.
Northern corn leaf blight and tarspot seen in upper corn canopy. I suspect it came in late during the cooler weather.
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